# List of shipwrecks in August 1822

The list of shipwrecks in August 1822 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during August 1822.

## 1 August

List of shipwrecks: 1 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Venus | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Lundy Island, Devon. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Cardiff, Glamorgan to Hayle, Cornwall. |

## 3 August

List of shipwrecks: 3 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Warden | United Kingdom | The ship ran onto rocks and sank at Tynemouth, Northumberland. Her crew were rescued. |

## 5 August

List of shipwrecks: 5 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hero | United Kingdom | The whaler was lost in the Davis Straits. Her crew were rescued. |

## 11 August

List of shipwrecks: 11 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Perth | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued. Perth was on a voyage from Sunderland, County Durham to Aberdeen. |

## 12 August

List of shipwrecks: 12 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Betsey | New South Wales | The ship was wrecked in Broken Bay. Her crew were rescued. |

## 15 August

List of shipwrecks: 15 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Britannia | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Solva, Pembrokeshire. She was on a voyage from Little Haven to Solva. |

## 16 August

List of shipwrecks: 16 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Comet | United States | The ship was wrecked on Amburger Key. She was on a voyage from British Honduras to Portland, Maine. |
| Palmyra | Puerto Rican pirates | The brig was captured and sunk off St. Thomas, Virgin Islands by USS Grampus ( United States Navy) with the loss of eleven of her 88 crew. |
| Pancheta | Spain | The privateer, a brig was severely damaged St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in an engagement with USS Grampus ( United States Navy). She was taken in to St. Thomas. |

## 17 August

List of shipwrecks: 17 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Venus | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked on The Holmes, in the Bristol Channel. Her crew were rescued. |

## 18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Hopewell | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore at Richibucto, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 18 August

List of shipwrecks: 18 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Anna Dorothea | | The ship, of Kiel, was on her way from St Ubes when she started to sink. George Hibbert United Kingdom took off the crew and brought them into the Downs. |

## 20 August

List of shipwrecks: 20 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Jonathan | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached at Calcutta, India. |

## 21 August

List of shipwrecks: 21 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Martha Brae | United Kingdom | The ship was lost on Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia, British North America. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 23 August

List of shipwrecks: 23 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Edward | United Kingdom | The ship was wrecked at Kirktown Head, Aberdeenshire. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Virginia, United States to Leith, Lothian. |

## 24 August

List of shipwrecks: 24 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Lark | United Kingdom | The ship sprang a leak and was beached. She was on a voyage from Dundalk, County Louth to Liverpool, Lancashire. |
| Victorine | New South Wales | The schooner departed from Sydney for Mauritius. No further trace, presumed foundered in the Pacific Ocean with the loss of all seven or eight crew. |

## 25 August

List of shipwrecks: 25 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Monitor | United States | The ship was wrecked at Barbuda. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sint Eustatius. |
| Retrieve | United Kingdom | The ship ran aground on the St. Anna Shoal. She was on a voyage from London to Maranhão, Brazil. Retrieve was later refloated but was condemned. |
| True Briton | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean. Her crew were rescued by Hebe ( United Kingdom) She was on a voyage from Liverpool, Lancashire to Saint John, New Brunswick, British North America. |

## 26 August

List of shipwrecks: 26 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Nueva Pelicana | Spain | The schooner was driven ashore and wrecked at Kingston, Jamaica by a privateer. |

## 28 August

List of shipwrecks: 28 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Neptune | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the Bristol Channel off Swansea, Glamorgan with the loss of two of her crew. She was on a voyage from Neath, Glamorgan to Cardigan. |

## 29 August

List of shipwrecks: 29 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Cepheus | United Kingdom | The brig was driven ashore and wrecked between Dungeness, Kent and Camber, Sussex. Her crew were rescued. |

## 30 August

List of shipwrecks: 30 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Asia Feliz | India | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked at Mazagon. |
| Eliza | United Kingdom | The ship was driven ashore and wrecked om Butcher's Island, Bombay, India. |

## 31 August

List of shipwrecks: 31 August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| Alexander | United States | The ship was driven ashore and severely damaged in the River Plate near Point Indigo, Argentina. She was later refloated and put into Ensenada. |

## Unknown date

List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in August 1822 :
| Ship | State | Description |
| David Shaw | United Kingdom | The ship was abandoned in the Atlantic Ocean before 22 August. She was on a voyage from Quebec City, Lower Canada, British North America to Belfast, County Antrim. She was towed into Crookhaven, County Cork on 25 September by HMRC Kite ( Board of Customs). |
| Eleanor | United Kingdom | The ship sank in the River Liffey. She was later refloated and taken in to Dublin. |
| Friendship | United Kingdom | The ship foundered off Rame Head, Cornwall. Her crew were rescued. |
| Hazard | United Kingdom | The ship foundered in the North Sea. Her crew were rescued by a Dutch galiot. She was on a voyage from Stockton-on-Tees, Yorkshire to Rouen, Seine-Inférieure, France. |
| Katherine | United Kingdom | The sloop was lost in the Hebrides with the loss of at least 13 lives. |
| Victorine | New South Wales | The ship departed from Sydney for Hobart, Van Diemen's Land. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of all hands. |